Fostering students’ English Learning Autonomy

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1、Fosteringstudents’EnglishLearningAutonomyIntroductionTheultimategoalofEnglishteachinginChinaistodeveloplearners’communicativecompetenceandgoodlearningstrategies,soastobecomeautonomouslanguagelearnersandusers.Theoreticallyspeaking,anykindofteachingissubjectedtotheeventualgoalofeduc

2、ation—topromotestudents’learningautonomy.Learnerautonomyreferstothecapabilitytodeterminethelearningobjectives,selectmethods,monitortheprocedureandevaluatetheresults.Fromtheearly1970s,ourEnglishteachinghasincreasinglyemphasizedtheimportanceofautonomouslearning.Sincethe1980s,learner

3、autonomyhasgainedmomentumintheeducationfield.Todaymoreandmorestudentsarerequiredtobecomeautonomouslearnerstofitthechangepaceofsociety.However,manyteachershavenotadjustedtheirrolesandhavenotlaidstressonpromotingautonomouslearningChapter1Teacher’srole1.1DefinitionofRoleTheterm“role”

4、isafamiliaroneanditsFrenchcircumflexhasbeenwornawaybyfrequentuse.Itcanbedefinedgenerallyasapartthatpeopleplayintheperformanceofsociallife.Arole,putinprecisesociologicaltermsbyBanton,is“asetofnormsandexpectationappliedtoincumbentsofaparticularposition”.Theincumbentsthispaperisconce

5、rnedwitharethosewhotakeuppositionintheEnglishlanguageclass:Englishteachers.　Theconcept“role”hasbecomeverypopularinEnglishlanguageteaching(ELT)andisatermincommonusagetodenotethefunctionsthatteachersandlearnersperformduringthecourseoflesson.Inthesocialsettingoftheclassroom,teachers’

6、andlearners’expectationsaboutwhatareappropriatefunctionsinvariouslearningtaskswilldeterminetherolethateachperforms.1.2Teacher’sRoleintheTraditionalEnglishLanguageTeachingInthe1960sand1970sinparticulartherewasmuchreflectionineducationalwritinginwesternculturesontraditionalteacher-d

7、irected,examination-orientedandgrammar-and-vocabulary-based.Theevaluationofateacherhaddependedontheamountofknowledgeheorshecrammedintothestudents’head:themore,thebetter.Theteacheristheunquestionable“authority,aknowledge-giver”(CortazziandJin1996),whodominatestheclassfromthebeginni

8、ngtotheend,whilethestudentsarejus